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Menifee public works demonstrates mobile graffiti‑removal trailer, asks residents to report tagging
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Menifee public works showed a mobile graffiti‑removal trailer with paint‑matching technology at Paloma Wash, explained how residents can report graffiti via the city website or app, and described additional methods for unpainted surfaces and sign protection.
Menifee public works staff demonstrated a mobile graffiti‑removal trailer at Paloma Wash and urged residents to use the city website or app to report tagging so crews can respond more quickly.
The demonstration, shown on the city’s Menifee in the Works segment, highlighted a color‑matching workflow that staff said allows them to blend repairs into existing concrete and painted surfaces. “So today, our staff is gonna come out here and they're gonna use our, graffiti trailer, which has a paint match technology in it,” said Tyler, a public works staff member, while showing the trailer and its scanner.
Tyler described the steps used in the field: a crew member takes a color reading from the wall with a handheld device, uploads the code into a laptop, and follows the color‑designer program to add pigments to a base paint. After the paint is mixed and shaken, staff test a dab on the surface, use a heat gun to speed drying for a better match, then apply the repair with an airless sprayer and “feather out the edges” so the repair transitions into the existing wall.
On how residents should report graffiti, Tyler said the city has a reporting pathway: “So they can go on the the city website or they can download the city app, which then they go onto the public works tab...it'll drop where the location is, and then they can add some photos to it, which will help better service to get out here quicker to remedy the the graffiti.” The staff member emphasized that photos and a waypoint help crews find and prioritize sites.
For unpainted or natural stone surfaces, Tyler described a separate 'hot seat' trailer equipped with a roughly 200‑gallon heated water tank and a pressure washer. Crews apply a solvent to break down paint, then use heated, pressurized water to remove graffiti from porous surfaces that cannot be painted to match.
Tyler also said crews handle graffiti on street signs using a milder solvent and, when replacing signs, order them with what was referred to in the segment as “11 60 sheeting,” which the staff member said protects against UV rays and makes graffiti easier to remove.
The host tried the sprayer during the demonstration and praised the crew’s speed and technique. The segment ended with the host thanking the public works team and encouraging viewers to report graffiti through the city’s online tools.
